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Dr. Emily Howard Stowe

Medical Career

Early life before medical career

Women's Rights

Susan Brownell Anthony

Stowe was denied into the Toronto School of Medicine because she was female.

She studied in New York City being unable to practice medicine in Canada.

She returned to Canada and became the first female physician to practice medicine in Canada.

Stowe met American feminist Susan B. Anthony while attending medical school. Stowe adopted Anthony's teachings and brought back her knowledge to Canada.

Stowe founded the Toronto Women's Literary Club, which was renamed the Canadian Women's Suffrage Association and she was known as the "mother" of Canadian Women's Suffrage Movement.

Stowe died in 1903, which was fourteen years before women were granted the ability to vote in Canada.

Emily Howard Jennings Stowe was born in Norwich Township, Ontario on May 1st, 1831

Stowe started teaching in local schools for seven years. Then became a principal of a Public School in Upper Canada.

She married John Stowe, who developed tuberculosis which lead to her interest in the medical field.

Augusta Stowe-Gullen

Dr. Emily Stowe

Ann Augusta Stowe-Gullen

Emily Stowe's first daughter.

She is the first woman to graduate from Medical School in Canada.

Also a feminist, Stowe-Gullen assisted her mother with the establishment of a women's hospital and college in Toronto.

John Stowe

Women's College Hospital in Toronto. Founded by Dr. Emily Howard Stowe and Augusta Stowe-Gullen in 1883.

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